Teaching assistants at York University in Toronto are on strike after management cut 800 TA posts. TAs are essential for students; they are the ones who actually teach the courses and do the grading rather than the professor. The management are also not doing enough to make the campus safe for women. If these attacks go ahead they will affect everyone at the university – send messages of support to CUPE3903strikecommittee@gmail.com.
Civil Servants
DVLA workers strike to change the most dangerous workplace in the UK
Running Time: 6mins 9secs 600 COVID-19 infections since September. Thousands have had to self-isolate. 60 more infections just in the past fortnight. One worker dead. And now workers at the DVLA in Swansea have been […]
Education
HE strike: rally at London Metropolitan University
Film length: 6:47 Third day of national strike action for a decent pay rise and a living wage for all higher education workers. At a rally at London Metropolitan University, the pickets are joined by […]
Council Workers
Solid strike by Barnet Council workers following ballot by UNISON.
Council workers in Barnet held a 50 strong picket line at the entrances to the North London Business Park today where Barnet council is based. The dispute is over the privatisation of services and contracts […]